Women’s Rights: When Honor Terrorizes, Burns and Kills

Cowed with fear. Tamed with fear. Taught to be quiet with fear. Fear and pain were so rich that in order to wander away from these feelings, all that was happening, experiences, oppression and pretty much anything would become normalized. We were the ones to obey quietly, if we could support each other or we couldn’t. Fear and pain were so rich, we the young girls looked like deaf, mute, thick skinned scarecrows.